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Thanks for coming to those who attended my stall today! Sorry had to leave at 3pm but I have a concert to perform in tonight! Why not come listen to my band perform at Egremont Market Hall at 7pm playing themes from the movies such as Bohiemian Rehapsody, The Smurfs, Out of Africa and Mamma Mia! Cannot go wrong! #digitalart #digitalartist #imamusiciantoo #music #egremont #whatson #brassband #cumbria https://www.instagram.com/p/Bww1qSYhoB3/?igshid=ure99c6tjl46

New #cyder #cider, the Fort Cider from #portsmouthdistillery #Portsmouth #southsea #hampshire #hampshirecider #ciderlover #fareham #farehamwinecellar #strongisland #gettingreadyforsummer #craftcider #hampshirecox #bramley #norfolkrusset #egremont (at Fareham Wine Cellar) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bud12xgBfpV/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=670l5zydi7t4

Locality:  Egremont, West Cumberland Iron Field, Cumbria, England.

Thomas Garvin was born in Ireland around 1821-1824.  In a letter written by his grandson-in-law, John Gallagher, of Salem, Ohio, we are told that Thomas and two brothers were orphaned in Ireland.  Neighbors took the children into their families.  Thomas was taken to England where he grew to manhood.  He married Bridget Sloan, either in England or Ireland.  Bridget gave birth to their first child, John Girvin, in Ireland in 1844.  (Irish potato famine was 1845-51) The family returned to England and settled in Egremont, in the Whitehaven District of Cumbria.  Four more children were born: Mary, Thomas, Jr., Edward, and Margaret.  Thomas began work as an agricultural laborer and eventually joined other men in the ore mines nearby.  He continued this work for over thirty years. Thomas and Bridget raised their five children in the Whitehaven District of Cumbria.  They moved from Egremont to nearby Cleator into a cottage down a path which led to Low Wath Mill and Weir.  Here they lived out their lives.  Their lives were church oriented and work centered.  Their children's births and baptisms are all recorded at St. Mary's Priory in Cleator.  Their children went to work at an early age which was typical for the time. John, their eldest son, married Mary Foy at St. Mary's in 1863 (at that time called St. Bega's).  They lived in one of the cottages of Low Wath as a neighbor to his parents.  John and Mary had made plans to emigrate to America.  At the time of their departure in 1872, they had six children.  The youngest were twins and Mary was expecting their seventh.   Because one of the twins was frail they left this baby, Mary Elizabeth, with John's parents, Thomas and Bridget, who raised her to age thirteen.  Thomas and Bridget also helped raise another grand-daughter, Eliza, the child of their daughter, Mary. It appears that Bridget may have had failing health at the same time Mary Elizabeth was reaching the age when she would be old enough to make the trip to join her family in America.  Mary Elizabeth left her Girvin grandparents in 1884 for that reunion, and Bridget died three years later. John was the only child of this family to emigrate.  His brothers remained in the area of Egremont.  Edward married, raised his family, died, and is buried at St. Mary's in Cleator.  Thomas, Jr. died in an accident at a mine at age 26 just a few months before his first child was born.  He, too, is buried at St. Mary's.  Margaret married and lived in Low Wath, where she and her husband, John Higgins, made a home for her father, Thomas, after he was widowed and until his death in 1893.  It is not known what became of their daughter, Mary, the mother of Mary Eliza. It is fascinating to learn that this family was one which was well-rooted in the same community for over forty years.  One can imagine the support that they were to one another.  Church records indicate the witnesses to Sacramental events, and these witnesses were relatives of friends.  We know that Thomas and Bridget must have been caring and loving grandparents to have raised two granddaughers.  It is my regret to realize that there are blood lines that remain unknown and disconnected by the distance and years.  Yet to my astonishment, the possibility that further research may uncover living persons descended from our Thomas and Bridget Girvin (aka Garvin) remains the impetus to continue this endeavor. Written by Margie Brubeck, posted to Ancestry by Jean Fox, Dec 25, 2012

“Magistrate McQueen of Egremont held court for the trial of two young men charged with being drunk. Both pleaded guilty and in each case fined $200 and costs - $30 in all. Provincial Inspector Beckett of Owen Sound sw to the prosecution of the cases and as an outcome of his thoroughness it is known where the liquor was obtained that made both men drunk. One got his supply in Mt. Forest. - Rep.” - from the Flesherton Advance. January 18, 1917. Page 05.

#thanks Jim #heli ride #Egremont #JJ (at Hudson, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/B3j3BPXHA8r/?igshid=1pd9icm1zibug

An hour late due to traffic but we’re here and set up ready for a great night #wildmurphys #irishmusic #egremont #bigweekend #cumbria (at Egremont Catholic Club) https://www.instagram.com/p/BpsK0wGFX-L/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1vdiofm5s57ji